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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the farm in danger?
(a) It is not in danger.
(b) The loan note is due.
(c) It is in a valley and can be flooded.
(d) There is a wild fire approaching.

2. Why is Rowena unable to go anywhere?
(a) She is embarrassed about Henry.
(b) She has to take care of Henry.
(c) She is ill.
(d) She has sprained her ankle.

3. What do Rowena's parents hear about the same time that Adam, Polly and Rowena are at Stew Meat's store?
(a) A scream.
(b) Someone yelling "alleluia".
(c) A loud pop.
(d) A strange sound in the woods.

4. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?
(a) Pa believes it is divine judgement.
(b) Pa says Adam could not have done this.
(c) Pa is irate.
(d) Pa is not angry.

5. What does Adam think is unfair?
(a) That his older brother gets to be in the navy and he has to be home working on the farm.
(b) The way he gets penalized in school when he's later because of working on the farm.
(c) The situation in his family.
(d) The way the other kids laugh at him for helping out his parents.

6. What is Ma doing in the morning?
(a) Wrapping up the family silver.
(b) Crying in her bedroom.
(c) Making breakfast on the big cookstove.
(d) Talking on the phone to FEMA.

7. What does Adam learn from his father as he goes to bed?
(a) The townspeople are trying to help build a sandbag wall.
(b) The water seems to be slowing.
(c) The water is almost to the top of the basement.
(d) Water is coming in the basement.

8. What does Adam promise his mother to do?
(a) Help her set up a flower garden.
(b) Be nicer to his young cousin who is staying with them.
(c) Work harder in school.
(d) Be nicer to his youngest brother who sometimes pesters Adam.

9. What does Adam notice at four neighboring farms?
(a) Lights going on.
(b) They are gearing up to help harvest the corn from Adam's family's fields.
(c) They are having the same problem as Adam's family.
(d) They are all willing to help Adam andhis family.

10. What does Adam decide to try?
(a) Digging a really deep hole to search for water.
(b) Using Uncle Poot's dowsing stick.
(c) Making the holes further apart so he does not need to dig so many.
(d) Putting a little cow manure in each hole.

11. What does Pa say when he comes in from the cornfield?
(a) That a hole Pa dug spouted water.
(b) That the crows ate most of the corn.
(c) That the corn has withered up.
(d) That mice are numerous in the corn field.

12. Of what is Adam convinced?
(a) He does not want to be a farmer.
(b) He can fix the problem with the well.
(c) He does not want to go to school.
(d) He'll be hauling water forever.

13. What happens to the fields by that night?
(a) They are all watered.
(b) They burn.
(c) They turn green almost instantaneously.
(d) They are dry and cracked.

14. What is Pa trying to keep safe?
(a) The barn.
(b) The chicken coop.
(c) The corn fields.
(d) The tool shed.

15. What does Stew Meat do after he gets out his card?
(a) Gives it to Rowena.
(b) Gives it to Adam.
(c) Makes a wish.
(d) Gives it to Polly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Adam harness the horses to the wagon?

2. What does Adam's mother think when Adam tells her his discovery?

3. Who suggests pulling up the weeds growing around Henry?

4. What do Stew Meat, Adam, Polly and Rowena realize?

5. What does Sam find near Henry?

(see the answer keys)

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